Sunday, June 11, 2006

Chaps!

A couple of fairly significant things to post this time (I think so anyway). Firstly, there's page two of the strip that I'm drawing for my friend Niall Doherty. I drew this a little over a year ago and coloured it last night. I think it looks pretty cool (click to enlarge):

Sky-Knight! Probably my favourite of the Last-Minuters. He wields Excalibur (THE Excalibur mind, not a knock-off or that) and flies a fabulous futuristic biplane called Tempus Fugit. Despite that, and because of a drinking problem and low self-esteem, he is rubbish at what he does.

This is Alphaman, the Superman analogue in the TLM-verse. To be honest, I'm probably going to make him a bet less Fleischer and a bit more Owen Wilson. He needs to be attractive to the heroine, and so must be cool heroic, not cheesy heroic. Anyway, I dig this design and the colours. That's an A on his chest.

Miss McC - going on past form, I suspect Catullus would fly into a drunken, foul-mouthed rage. I'm not quite sure where SkyKnight obtained Excalibur - my feeling is that he was shot down over France in WWI and saved by Merlin, who gave him a magic sword and a souped-up airplane with which to win the war. At the end of the war he was transplanted in time to the present day, where he finds his old world thinking causes problems. Either that or he's an immortal who has watched the world get steadily worse (in his eyes) since the war and now drinks heavily to deal with it. Lovely.

He's so cool, I'm almost tempted to make the whole story about him. We'll see.

I really like the idea of Sky-Knight being more of a main focus, alongside the PR of course. I think this would also take away the notion once and for all that you're too close to The Mystery Men. Sky-Knight's ventures may be hopeless and hilarious but his involvement brings epic, timeless themes to the stories, yes? Flashbacks? I concur with Mr Spink's last point, by the by. Am really looking forward to reading a whole story. No pressure!